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Islington Town Hall on Upper Street. Photo from Wikimedia Commons - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:IslingtonTownHall.jpg

Islington Council publishes sexuality of thousands of residents online

28 July 2012 , ,
The Daily Telegraph reports: Islington Council in north London has published personal information, including the sexuality, of almost 2,500 residents online. The latest mix-up happened as they responded to a Freedom of Information (FOI) request on the website What Do They Know? Town hall officers managed to leak the names, addresses, relationship status, gender, ethnicity, [...]

MPs’ expenses: have you sent in your views yet?

15 January 2010 , , ,
As Helen has covered on The Voice, the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority is running a public consultation on MPs’ expenses. Comments on its proposals can be submitted until 11 February 2010. A couple of people mentioned in comments to that post that the proposals are rather better than the media coverage made them fear, and reading [...]

Why I’ve lobbied my MP over the choice of Speaker

13 June 2009 , , , , ,
In the past it’s never really occurred to me to lobby my MP about who they were going to support in a contest for Speaker of the House of Commons. I’ve seen those contests as largely internal affairs, with MPs knowing the candidates and their likely ability to do their job far better than me, [...]

More goodies from the mySociety team

1 June 2009
Their latest idea – a service that combines commute times, property prices and the beauty of an area in order to show you where you might want to live – looks very neat. It is also, once again, a good example of how letting people get at data results in all sorts of unexpected conclusions. [...]